SEO for keywords and content is relatively easy. Choose your keyword. Write content around that keyword. Use an SEO optimizer program to make sure you have done it right.

Long gone are the days of writing unrelated content, and then typing “Britney Spears” 100 times at the end of the article. Today’s search engine spiders can spot the “Black Hat” SEO techniques a mile away, and your site can be banned for life.

Here are a few tips for SEO optimization:

Be focussed in your meta keywords – 1 to 3 SEO optimized keywords is enough

Put your keyword at the beginning of you page title tag.

Make sure you title tag is the first tag in the head section

Make sure your keyword appears in the alt tag for images and in link text, but no more than 3 times

Put your keyword in bold

Put your keyword in the H1 section of your page, and H2 if you can

Have a keyword weigh in your article between 3-6% (higher is “keyword spamming”)

SEO for domain names

Going back to the Nike.com example from my “SEO for Google” article. Since the keyword weight is 0%, how does nike.com get to billing when you search for them? Easy, Google gives a rank weight to domain names.

Make sure your primary domain name reflects the main purpose of your site (domain SEO). This site, for example, is all about my desire to “retire with millions”. The site is subdivided in to many SEO optimized sub-domains each with a URL that denotes the sections. For example, all my SEO articles are in a sub-directory called ../seo.

Many articles have been written about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Google. Google is the largest search engine (for now) and getting your SEO right for the Googlebot can make your site top ten site getting millions of hits a day. On the other hand, poor SEO and your site may never be ranked and your campaigns for Adsence will never net you any real money. Even worse, bad SEO might mean that your cutting edge product is un-finable by your customers.

Google page rank is determined by a number of factors:

SEO keywords

SEO content

SEO domain name

Originality of content

Number of links from external sites

SEO keywords and SEO content will be dealt with in another article, lets focus on the other 2 for now.

Original Content

Having original content on your site is a no-brainer. It is the “why” that escapes many SEO web content developers. We have all seen the ads promising “150000 Adsense and SEO optimized pages”. If it were this easy, all of us would be multi-millionaires by now. The reality is, Googlebot applies a penalty for non-original content, no mater how SEO you might think the page is. Think about it – why does “Nike.com” come up number 1 when you type Nike into Google? You or I could probably write a better SEO page about Nike than Nike.com. In fact, Nike.com keyword density for “Nike” is 0%!!!

Links from External Sites

Google take into account the number of links you have from external sites. Each link is like a “vote” for your site. Before you go and sign up for a link exchange program, consider this, some links do not count, in fact, being a “link spammer” can kill your ranking, no matter how good your SEO.

There are ways to generate quality back links:

Create a blog on blogspot.com (a Google Site) and write about your web page – include properly formatted links

Join blogs on respected sites and comment on articles, putting your URL in your signature

Write “press releases” when you update your site and post them on the free press release sites around the web

Take out classified ads in respected on-line newspapers

Make small donations to charity sites that keep a “Thank You” page and include your web site with your name

These are just some tips to compliment your SEO work to get a good Google ranking.



By: Martyn Carver

About the Author:

Aldo

SEO for keywords and content is relatively easy. Choose your keyword. Write content around that keyword. Use an SEO optimizer program to make sure you have done it right.

Long gone are the days of writing unrelated content, and then typing “Britney Spears” 100 times at the end of the article. Today’s search engine spiders can spot the “Black Hat” SEO techniques a mile away, and your site can be banned for life.

Here are a few tips for SEO optimization:

Be focussed in your meta keywords – 1 to 3 SEO optimized keywords is enough

Put your keyword at the beginning of you page title tag.

Make sure you title tag is the first tag in the head section

Make sure your keyword appears in the alt tag for images and in link text, but no more than 3 times

Put your keyword in bold

Put your keyword in the H1 section of your page, and H2 if you can

Have a keyword weigh in your article between 3-6% (higher is “keyword spamming”)

SEO for domain names

Going back to the Nike.com example from my “SEO for Google” article. Since the keyword weight is 0%, how does nike.com get to billing when you search for them? Easy, Google gives a rank weight to domain names.

Make sure your primary domain name reflects the main purpose of your site (domain SEO). This site, for example, is all about my desire to “retire with millions”. The site is subdivided in to many SEO optimized sub-domains each with a URL that denotes the sections. For example, all my SEO articles are in a sub-directory called ../seo.

Many articles have been written about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Google. Google is the largest search engine (for now) and getting your SEO right for the Googlebot can make your site top ten site getting millions of hits a day. On the other hand, poor SEO and your site may never be ranked and your campaigns for Adsence will never net you any real money. Even worse, bad SEO might mean that your cutting edge product is un-finable by your customers.

Google page rank is determined by a number of factors:

SEO keywords

SEO content

SEO domain name

Originality of content

Number of links from external sites

SEO keywords and SEO content will be dealt with in another article, lets focus on the other 2 for now.

Original Content

Having original content on your site is a no-brainer. It is the “why” that escapes many SEO web content developers. We have all seen the ads promising “150000 Adsense and SEO optimized pages”. If it were this easy, all of us would be multi-millionaires by now. The reality is, Googlebot applies a penalty for non-original content, no mater how SEO you might think the page is. Think about it – why does “Nike.com” come up number 1 when you type Nike into Google? You or I could probably write a better SEO page about Nike than Nike.com. In fact, Nike.com keyword density for “Nike” is 0%!!!

Links from External Sites

Google take into account the number of links you have from external sites. Each link is like a “vote” for your site. Before you go and sign up for a link exchange program, consider this, some links do not count, in fact, being a “link spammer” can kill your ranking, no matter how good your SEO.

There are ways to generate quality back links:

Create a blog on blogspot.com (a Google Site) and write about your web page – include properly formatted links

Join blogs on respected sites and comment on articles, putting your URL in your signature

Write “press releases” when you update your site and post them on the free press release sites around the web

Take out classified ads in respected on-line newspapers

Make small donations to charity sites that keep a “Thank You” page and include your web site with your name

These are just some tips to compliment your SEO work to get a good Google ranking.



By: Alien

About the Author:

Elsu

Search engine optimization, popularly known as SEO, is a technique that optimizes a website in order to make it very search-engine-friendly. SEO can be performed at the programming as well as at the content end – the programming aspect of SEO tunes the website to the requirements of the latest search engines algorithms, while the content aspect of SEO involves strategically embedding sought-after keywords in the website content. There are other methods as well – e.g., link building, article submission and directory submission.

If you want your website to register its presence in the competitive world of Internet, you’ve got to resort to SEO techniques. Otherwise, a website fails to get noticed amongst millions of them. But the bad news is that there are many unethical outfits out there who promise you great SEO, but all they do to get your website a high page rank on the results page is employ a variety of unethical techniques (the so called black-hat techniques) to fool the search engines. If caught by search engines, your website can be blacklisted and banned for adopting unethical SEO techniques. It is, therefore, absolutely important that a website owner works along with an ethical SEO consultant, and here’s how you must choose one.

Guide To Choosing An Ethical SEO Consultant

The Internet has made the world a smaller place and a website owner can work with SEO consultants based in any part of the world – there are many SEO consultants’ websites all over the Internet, and tracking down one is not all that difficult a task. And here’s how you must choose one:

1. If the SEO consultant is a professional, then he must be accredited by many reputed organizations such as Google AdWords, Web CEO University, and SEO Pros. If the SEO consultant has more accreditations, well, the more the merrier. A certified SEO professional is ethical by default – ethics are inbuilt into their work code.

2. He must have an impressive roster of clients who speak highly of him. And he must not be hesitant to give out a few references.

3. If the SEO consultant is professional and ethical then it automatically follows he will have a successful track record. So, go ahead and check the websites he has performed SEO on, and check if they rank high on search engines results pages.

4. The SEO consultant needs to be versatile and he must offer services such as website analysis, content writing, keyword research, link building, SEO and, of course, adequate reporting back to the client.

5. The SEO consultant must have a clean track record, in the sense that he must never have been blacklisted for adopting unethical SEO techniques. Such techniques include spamming search engines, trading links with websites that are part of link farms, or cloaking, which means coating keywords with the same color as the website’s background and stuffing a whole lot of them on all the pages. You can find out if the SEO consultant has resorted to dubious means by running a check on him on search engines and on message boards. Plus, you can always check with his references too.

That was a small guide on how to go about selecting an ethical SEO consultant. True, finding an ethical SEO consultant will take a little bit of time and effort, but it is well worth it. Because an unethical SEO consultant can kill a website, while an ethical consultant can help you build your fortune.



By: Ben Norman

About the Author:

Asher

The demand for SEO companies is increasing. Almost every website requires the help of one and because of this there has been an emergence of SEO companies. Site owners are now trying to find the best SEO Company that they could deal with. Since they are still new into the field, not all of them know how to choose the best possible SEO Company. Some are too overwhelmed that they just grab the first one that offers them services.

To start with, if you are looking for a SEO company, do not be overwhelmed by the things that they offer. You must consider that there are several characteristics or requirements that you should look for in your providing firm. These requirements will not only help you in choosing the SEO company but you will also be happier with the output that they will provide you.

The first thing to consider is the approach of the SEO Company. There are several approaches that SEO companies use in order to achieve the traffic that they require for a site. One of which is ‘doorway’ or ‘bridge’ approach wherein they use keywords that are not found in the site. This approach makes you gain rankings for a short period of time but it is also not accepted in major search engines. Another approach is ‘cloaking’ wherein the server provides unique contents when it perceives a search engine visiting the site. It shows contents with the keywords that are high in rank. Once Google finds this out, it automatically remove the website from their list. SEO Company that use these techniques are engaging in Black Hat SEO and you must avoid them like the plague as they will get your site banned.

Another requirement to consider is the results that it can give you. This will have to deal with the search engines that the SEO Company had created popular searches with. Major search engines are better than smaller ones. You should also consider the key phrases that the SEO companies use in your website. There are sites as well as programs in the Internet where you can check if the keywords being used have high search volume. The higher search volume means that it has greater potential to bring your site a lot of traffic once higher rankings are achieved. Aside from these, the output for the whole site and the rank that it maintained should be taken into consideration. Check the output made by the SEO Company on previous projects. The website as a whole should be attractive for the possible audience. It should also maintain ranking for sometime. Lastly, make sure that the site that the SEO Company is showing you is really their work. Look for their logo to confirm their work on it. Do not be fooled because other SEO companies claim higher rank websites to be their own when in fact they haven’t worked with it yet.

The third requirement that you should consider is the support and the reports that the SEO Company gives to their client. Look for a SEO Company that is able to show reports on the ranks from the major search engines. You should be given detailed individual and overall report as well as the overview of the previous and present outputs. Aside from these, the SEO company should also be responsible in giving you recommendations on the steps that they need to do in order to maintain or further improve the ranking of the website. The work of the SEO company does not end, instead they continually provide help and monitoring on your website to be able to produce the traffic that you aim.

Aside from these, you should also consider the price that you will pay for the services of the SEO Company. If you prefer to go with known and reliable SEO Company, be prepared to pay for higher fees. You can also find a new incoming SEO Company that promises to provide the same output. In cases like this, you should consider that there is a risk that you should take.

Lastly, consider the references that the SEO Company worked with. They should be able to give you a list of their past clients who were satisfied with their services.

As a whole, in order to find the SEO Company for your site, you must be satisfied with the results that they made for their other clients. They must communicate with you well and will work on your request. There must be a good communication between the two of you. SEO companies are almost everywhere, choose wisely and choose well.



By: Moe Tamani

About the Author:

Brady

The demand for SEO companies is increasing. Almost every website requires the help of one and because of this there has been an emergence of SEO companies. Site owners are now trying to find the best SEO Company that they could deal with. Since they are still new into the field, not all of them know how to choose the best possible SEO Company. Some are too overwhelmed that they just grab the first one that offers them services.

To start with, if you are looking for a SEO company, do not be overwhelmed by the things that they offer. You must consider that there are several characteristics or requirements that you should look for in your providing firm. These requirements will not only help you in choosing the SEO company but you will also be happier with the output that they will provide you.

The first thing to consider is the approach of the SEO Company. There are several approaches that SEO companies use in order to achieve the traffic that they require for a site. One of which is ‘doorway’ or ‘bridge’ approach wherein they use keywords that are not found in the site. This approach makes you gain rankings for a short period of time but it is also not accepted in major search engines. Another approach is ‘cloaking’ wherein the server provides unique contents when it perceives a search engine visiting the site. It shows contents with the keywords that are high in rank. Once Google finds this out, it automatically remove the website from their list. SEO Company that use these techniques are engaging in Black Hat SEO and you must avoid them like the plague as they will get your site banned.

Another requirement to consider is the results that it can give you. This will have to deal with the search engines that the SEO Company had created popular searches with. Major search engines are better than smaller ones. You should also consider the key phrases that the SEO companies use in your website. There are sites as well as programs in the Internet where you can check if the keywords being used have high search volume. The higher search volume means that it has greater potential to bring your site a lot of traffic once higher rankings are achieved. Aside from these, the output for the whole site and the rank that it maintained should be taken into consideration. Check the output made by the SEO Company on previous projects. The website as a whole should be attractive for the possible audience. It should also maintain ranking for sometime. Lastly, make sure that the site that the SEO Company is showing you is really their work. Look for their logo to confirm their work on it. Do not be fooled because other SEO companies claim higher rank websites to be their own when in fact they haven’t worked with it yet.

The third requirement that you should consider is the support and the reports that the SEO Company gives to their client. Look for a SEO Company that is able to show reports on the ranks from the major search engines. You should be given detailed individual and overall report as well as the overview of the previous and present outputs. Aside from these, the SEO company should also be responsible in giving you recommendations on the steps that they need to do in order to maintain or further improve the ranking of the website. The work of the SEO company does not end, instead they continually provide help and monitoring on your website to be able to produce the traffic that you aim.

Aside from these, you should also consider the price that you will pay for the services of the SEO Company. If you prefer to go with known and reliable SEO Company, be prepared to pay for higher fees. You can also find a new incoming SEO Company that promises to provide the same output. In cases like this, you should consider that there is a risk that you should take.

Lastly, consider the references that the SEO Company worked with. They should be able to give you a list of their past clients who were satisfied with their services.

As a whole, in order to find the SEO Company for your site, you must be satisfied with the results that they made for their other clients. They must communicate with you well and will work on your request. There must be a good communication between the two of you. SEO companies are almost everywhere, choose wisely and choose well.



By: Moe Tamani

About the Author:

Conley

As you scout around for SEO services, you may wonder what sets one company’s SEO services apart from another’s. Companies which provide SEO services usually use different SEO philosophies, tools and methods for optimizing their clients’ websites. These different approaches are usually termed as “hats” SEO services usually come in three different hats:

Black Hat SEO Services

Black Hat SEO is known as SEO spamming. From the second term itself, you may have an idea of what this kind of SEO service offers. Black Hat SEO is centered on creating sites that are targeted at manipulating or tricking search engines for better site ranking. Black Hat SEO relies heavily on automation to come up with large numbers of substandard pages and pulls links from other sites which are actually irrelevant. Consequently, this SEO approach usually gets poor or irrelevant search engine result pages or SERP quality. What is advantageous with Black Hat SEO is that it can get your site on the top of search engine rankings in a matter of a short span of time. However, this is not a wise SEO services strategy in terms of web design perspective. Worse, once search engines find out that your site maligns their results; your site may and will run the risk of getting banned or crashing on view. So if you want to get on top of search engine listings in a matter of days and are willing to take the risk of flouting some site behavior guidelines, Black Hat SEO services should do the trick for you.

White Hat SEO Services

For every black, there is always a white. The same is true for SEO services. White Hat SEO services, on the other hand, relies on the advantages of putting in relevant and quality content as well as effective marketing strategies to place sites on top of search engine rankings. SEO services providers that offer White Hat SEO will focus mostly on your site contents. White Hat SEO providers will help you come up with contents that will attract people, and not search engines into your site. You should know that content is a very important factor in SEO building (if not the most important). With good content, White Hat SEO services will be able to get you more inbound links from other relevant websites. White Hat SEO is definitly considered to be the better SEO tool. It will not put your site in the risk for getting blacklisted and does not violate any search engine SEO guidelines. Most importantly, visitors who check your site will most likely be converted easily with your great content.

Grey Hat SEO Services

Grey Hat SEO is mid-way between the two tools above and is all about the balance between risk and reward. There are actually a wide number of SEO services solutions categorized under this. Some Grey Hat SEO services may tend to use more dubious strategies and take even bigger risks to produce fast and high search engine rankings. While many Gray Hat SEO services methods obey search engine guidelines, others might put you at risk. If you opt for SEO services using Grey Hat, be sure about what you are exactly subjecting your online site to.

Which hat should you choose?

According to major search engines such as Google, White Hat is good SEO; Black Hat is bad SEO, while Grey Hat is for the most part, dicey. Those using Black Hat SEO services might tell you that White Hat is too ineffective and Grey Hat may be safe but not as effective. Those who prefer Grey Hat may claim that White Hat SEO Services is only effective only when no Grey or Black Hats are involved. White Hat SEO services providers may tell you that Black Hat SEO users are cheaters and those providing Grey Hat are quitters.

Through all these varying opinions, know that it is still up to you to choose the right type of SEO services that you want. It is your objectives and goals that will determine which type of hat you should wear. From my point of view White Hat is better and more cost effective if you are serious about your business… and serious businesses exclude: gambling, adult, and pharmacy sites.

peteprestipino asked:


I’m writing an article on Black Hat SEO and was wondering if anyone knew of any techniques not included in the list below.

Is anything missing?

Keyword stuffing, invisible text, doorway pages, link spamming (link farms), blog spamming, cloaking

Ahern

Aaron V asked:


Well, the basic principle of SEO is to generated visitors of one website, right? But it is so lamed to “click here” and “click that” using Social Bookmarking, is there a faster way to generate links using black hat SEO? i am so curious about it.

Ajay